ND Women's BB '18 -'19 Season

[ab2cmiller]

LOL. So now we are saying that if you do the post game handshakes too quickly that rises to the level of disgraceful. OK.

 

[IrishLax]

Someone should ask Geno how he feels being Muffet’s bitch in the tournament. Then ask him if he needs to hire more men to be competitive.

 

[Irish#1]

no, not really. i was flipping over to catch the score every once in a while, but never really paid attention when I tuned in late. was it hot? lol

Leopard print skirt. Did an Irish jig after the game. ESPN showed it during SC.

 

[ND88]

LOL. So now we are saying that if you do the post game handshakes too quickly that rises to the level of disgraceful. OK.

Nope. Just if you’re the headcoach of the lady Huskies basketball team.

Just pure dislike of Geno.

 

[Legacy]

Leopard print skirt. Did an Irish jig after the game. ESPN showed it during SC.

In high heels, too. Dancing on his grave?

 

[Old Man Mike]

Just got to watch the game on replay.

Same as we've been. Neither Arike nor Marina can hit the side of the barn in the first half, and we don't go inside enough and struggle. The best basketball that we played in the first half was when Muffet got thoroughly p!ssed at Arike's "optional defense" behaviors and put in Abby. The team firmed up then, and if Brianna hadn't had to be taken out (fouls) we may have stretched away from them right there.

Second half: Arike live with me//die with me again. The shots were great; the defense was horrible. I ran back most of the breakdowns --- almost all daydreaming/head-turned or other lack of focus and hustle on the weak side back end. We had other breakdowns too, of course, but you could see some frantic effort at least by those players usually.

Generally happy times, though. The inside banging in this last one is going to be "what it's about." Once again, I'm hoping that our "little" silent assassin (Jackie) is the difference that we have.

Pray for no foul troubles gentlemen.

 

[tko]

LOL. So now we are saying that if you do the post game handshakes too quickly that rises to the level of disgraceful. OK.

I hear you but watch that again. At least shake properly and wait to throw a hissy until you're with your team. Maybe disgraceful is too harsh, but that was laughable to me.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I had no problem with the post-game walk-past.

I doubt that Muffet wanted to linger either.

 

[Circa]

Leopard print skirt. Did an Irish jig after the game. ESPN showed it during SC.

You still watch ESPN? Screw that old sickly thing...<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">MY QUEEN <a href="https://twitter.com/MuffetMcGraw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MuffetMcGraw</a> <a href="https://t.co/zqc7TTwa2I">pic.twitter.com/zqc7TTwa2I</a></p>— Mike Golic Jr (@MGolicJR57) <a href="https://twitter.com/MGolicJR57/status/1114366275688513536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[Circa]

I had no problem with the post-game walk-past.

I doubt that Muffet wanted to linger either.

Why Is this even an Issue? Woman want and should have equality. We as men shouldn't need to showcase any chivalry. Equality Is equal.

 

[BGIF]

Women's NCAA championship game predictions:

Women's NCAA championship game predictions:

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/26455917/women-ncaa-championship-game-predictions-baylor-notre-dame-win

Will Baylor or Notre Dame win?

...

ESPN's Basketball Power Index says Notre Dame has a 53 percent chance to win. Our panel weighs in with its picks:


Andrea Adelson: Baylor
The Lady Bears thrive on their post players and defensive play, and those two factors will put them over the top. Baylor feels especially confident in this matchup because of its swarming defense, and believes that will help take Notre Dame and its powerful guards off rhythm. Its play against Oregon, and Sabrina Ionescu in particular, only enhanced that confidence going into the championship game. Beyond Kalani Brown and Lauren Cox, watch for Didi Richards' defense on Arike Ogunbowale to be one of the difference-makers.


Charlie Creme: Notre Dame
Experience will carry the day for the Irish. Note Dame delivered in the key moments against UConn in the semifinals and certainly did last year in winning the national championship. Baylor handled its first close game in a while well in its semifinal win over Oregon, but that pales in comparison to the on-the-job training that the Irish have.


Graham Hays: Notre Dame
Repeating is difficult over the course of a season, but no defending champion that reached the final has lost a repeat bid since 1983. And with Jessica Shepard and Brianna Turner uniquely suited to challenge a team with Kalani Brown and Lauren Cox, Notre Dame has more than history on its side.


Elizabeth Merrill: Notre Dame
Initially, I picked Baylor, but the Irish really seem to be on a mission. And I'm not sure anything is going to get in the way of Arike Ogunbowale.


Kevin Pelton: Baylor
Before the NCAA tournament, Notre Dame was the consensus statistical favorite, but Baylor has been so dominant in March and April -- aside from Friday's narrow win over Oregon to reach the title game. Despite Notre Dame's history of Final Four heroics, I'm going with Baylor.


LaChina Robinson: Notre Dame
Experience means a lot at the Final Four, and Notre Dame has players on its roster that have competed for a national championship. Handling pressure, responding to runs and getting over the hump of adversity in a pressure situation is always a little easier when you have done it before.


Mechelle Voepel: Notre Dame
The Irish's offense is so difficult to beat; they can strike from anywhere, and they never lose confidence. Every starter is a threat. Baylor is better-positioned than any other team to combat that defensively, and there is a belief that much of the time, defense ultimately wins championships. But in this case, Notre Dame's offense probably will.

 

[BGIF]

RealTimeRPI Prediction: Baylor 73 Notre Dame 58

Win Probability 74.8%

Power Rating:
BU #1
ND #2

SOS
ND #1
BU #13



Massey Prediction: BU (-2.5) 77 ND 74

Win Probability 57%

 

[BGIF]

5Dimes

5Dimes

ND +3

 

[Irish#1]

You still watch ESPN? Screw that old sickly thing...<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">MY QUEEN <a href="https://twitter.com/MuffetMcGraw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MuffetMcGraw</a> <a href="https://t.co/zqc7TTwa2I">pic.twitter.com/zqc7TTwa2I</a></p>— Mike Golic Jr (@MGolicJR57) <a href="https://twitter.com/MGolicJR57/status/1114366275688513536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Only watch it for FB or BB games. I watched SC only because they came on right after the game and were opening with the ladies game. I wanted to see if they gave credit where credit is due. They did give props.

 

[BGIF]

Women's NCAA championship preview: How Baylor and Notre Dame match up

Andrea Adelson, Charlie Creme and Mechelle Voepel | espnW

TAMPA, Fla. -- The women's NCAA title game is here, and Baylor and Notre Dame are both trying to win a third national championship.

In our championship game predictions, Adelson picked Baylor to win, while Creme and Voepel tabbed Notre Dame as the favorite.

Which one-on-one matchup are you most looking forward to?
Creme: This game is loaded with potentially classic, game-deciding individual matchups. The national championship could turn on any one of them. My focus the entire game will be on Baylor's DiDi Richards against Notre Dame's Arike Ogunbowale. Richards has been the breakout offensive player for the Lady Bears in the NCAA tournament, doubling her scoring average to 13.4 points per game, but her defense on Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu was such an important part of Baylor's semifinal win on Friday.

At 6-foot-1, Richards has the kind of length that also could bother Ogunbowale. The time to really zero in on this matchup will be the second half, when Ogunbowale has shined both in this tournament -- she had 21 second-half points in Friday's semifinal win over UConn, 24 second-half points against Texas A&M and 11 fourth-quarter points against Stanford -- and last year's Final Four (two buzzer-beating, game-winning shots). If Richards can maintain her game plan and stay out of foul trouble chasing Ogunbowale all night, Baylor's chances of winning increase exponentially.

Adelson: Marina Mabrey told me she thought the matchup between Richards and Ogunbowale is going to enhance the women's game because of its competitiveness. Whether the superior offensive or defensive player wins out will be fascinating to watch.

But let's not forget what got Baylor to this point: its presence inside. So the matchup between Notre Dame's Brianna Turner and Jessica Shepard and Baylor's Lauren Cox and Kalani Brown should be right at the top, too. Cox and Brown power Baylor offensively because no team in the country has the twin size they do. Defensively, they are able to take the opposing team's post players out of their game because they are so tall. Notre Dame has a much better post presence than Oregon, so how the Fighting Irish work to contain Brown and Cox might be even bigger than the guard play.

Voepel: I love watching post players who supplement their scoring with a great ability to pass, and that's true of Cox and Shepard. They're both strong, 6-foot-4 presences who can get offensive boards and save their teams that way on possessions that otherwise would come up empty. But they also see the court like guards and pass so well to their fellow posts and the perimeter players. On Friday, Cox had 21 points and 11 rebounds, while Shepard registered 20 and 13; both had seven assists. For the season, Cox has 140 assists and Shepard 124, and they make their teams' high-low games very hard to guard.

What will be Sunday's X factor?
Creme: Whichever frontcourt pairing -- Baylor's Brown and Cox or Notre Dame's Turner and Shepard -- gets the best of the other could decide the game. And foul trouble could be the difference. Turner's presence on the floor is essential to Notre Dame's defense. She picked up two fouls in the first half against UConn and came out of the game. The Huskies surged with effective play from freshman Olivia Nelson-Ododa with Turner on the bench. Imagine what Brown and Cox could do without the 6-foot-3 Turner impeding their progress. Likewise, if either Cox or Brown have to sit, Baylor's biggest advantage is gone.

Adelson: If there's one player who often gets overlooked on Baylor, it's Juicy Landrum. She might be the only starter who doesn't average double digits, but she has quietly worked to become one of the most reliable defenders on the team. Look at the way she helped shut down Ionescu in the semifinals. When Richards found herself in foul trouble, Landrum switched over to guard Ionescu with equally as impressive results. Ionescu went 0-for-6 with Landrum as her primary defender.

On paper, Notre Dame has the edge when it comes to scoring from its guards. Baylor knows its defense must go beyond shutting down Ogunbowale, and Landrum is going to be one of the biggest keys.

Voepel: I'll go with Jackie Young. She had 32 points in the semifinals last year against UConn, and she always is capable of having huge games. You often hear of a player quietly having a great game, and that tends to be how it is with Young. She has great court sense and athleticism, but she does everything so smoothly, it sometimes appears less spectacular than it actually is. Then other times, you are definitely blown away by the things she does. The general consensus is that Young is Notre Dame's best all-around player. As much attention as Ogunbowale demands, Young also is going to present a game-long challenge for Baylor's defense that could make the difference in getting the Irish another national championship.

Who will be the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player?
Creme: Turner, Shepard, Cox, Brown, Ogunbowale and even Richards already have made a good case with great performances in the semifinals. Any one of the them could emerge as the winner with a career-defining game on Sunday. But in that kind of setting, it's hard to bet against Ogunbowale. The Notre Dame senior has become the ultimate big-moment player. No one on the floor will be more confident in a close game, and no one has the ability to shake off a bad stretch like Ogunbowale. A very forgettable two-point first half against UConn turned into a 23-point, when-it-mattered masterpiece. There is no reason to believe she can't do it again.

Adelson: Charlie's right -- it's hard to bet against Ogunbowale, especially since she has come through so many times in the clutch. But I picked Baylor to win based on its post play, so I'm going to go with Cox. Nothing beats her competitive fire, nor her will to get the job done, no matter what it takes. Brown might get more headlines because she is physically bigger, but you can make the argument that Cox is the team's most valuable player. When the Lady Bears needed stops down the stretch against Oregon, Cox made them. I'm betting she does the same against the Irish.

Voepel: Ogunbowale has such a sense for the moment in games, and if it comes down to making big shots, she's the one. But if Shepard gets the kind of numbers on Sunday that she did on Friday, and Notre Dame wins, it's hard not to reward her with the honor. Last year, Shepard came up huge in the national championship game, both with her defense against Mississippi State's Teaira McCowan and her 19 points on 8-of-10 shooting. Shepard can impact the game in many ways as a post player. Against a team as post-dominant as Baylor, she and Turner will need to play at a Most Outstanding Player level.

 

[BGIF]

BAYLOR BEARS

BAYLOR BEARS

NO	NAME	POS	HT	CLASS	HOMETOWN
1	NaLyssa Smith	F	6-2	FR	Converse, TX
2	DiDi Richards	G	6-1	SO	Cypress, TX
3	Trinity Oliver	G	5-9	FR	Euless, TX
4	Honesty Scott-Grayson	G	5-9	FR	Brick, NJ
10	Aquira DeCosta	F	6-0	FR	Sacramento, CA
12	Moon Ursin	G	5-6	SO	Destrehan, LA
15	Lauren Cox	F	6-4	JR	Flower Mound, TX
20	Juicy Landrum	G	5-8	JR	Waco, TX
21	Kalani Brown	C	6-7	SR	Slidell, LA
24	Chloe Jackson	G	5-8	SR	Upper Marlboro, MD
25	Queen Egbo	C	6-3	FR	Houston, TX
51	Caitlin Bickle	F	6-0	FR	Cave Creek, AZ

 

[BGIF]

Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Notre Dame Fighting Irish

NO	NAME	POS	HT	CLASS	HOMETOWN
0	Jordan Nixon	G	5-8	FR	New York, NY
2	Kaitlin Cole	G	5-10	JR	Toledo, OH
3	Marina Mabrey	G	5-11	SR	Belmar, NJ
5	Jackie Young	G	6-0	JR	Princeton, IN
10	Katlyn Gilbert	G	5-10	FR	Indianapolis, IN
11	Brianna Turner	F	6-3	SR	Pearland, TX
12	Abby Prohaska	G	5-10	FR	Liberty Township, OH
20	Nicole Benz	G	5-8	FR	Valencia, CA
22	Danielle Cosgrove	F	6-4	FR	Holbrook, NY
24	Arike Ogunbowale	G	5-8	SR	Milwaukee, WI
30	Mikayla Vaughn	C	6-3	SO	Philadelphia, PA
32	Jessica Shepard	F	6-4	SR	Fremont, NE
33	Danielle Patterson	F	6-2	SO	Brooklyn, NY
40	Maureen Butler	F	6-1	SR	Livonia, MI

 

[BGIF]

3 TOs to start

 

[BGIF]

MABREY!

 

[BGIF]

Nice move by Landrum

 

[BGIF]

Landrum all alone for 3, 5 points

Rico in and out

Jackson J for 8 pt lead


TIMEOUT

 

[BGIF]

Smith in for injured Brown for 2 more.


Young fouled. Made the Pair. 13-5


Smith over ... Arike ... mismatch.

Muffet Timeout. 15-5

 

[dad4aa]

BGIF, do you remember the last game we didn't start out shooting so poorly?

 

[BGIF]

Shooting

Shooting

BU 7-10

ND 1-13

 

[BGIF]

BGIF, do you remember the last game we didn't start out shooting so poorly?

No, I was pumped when Mabs hit that Trey. Didn't realize 2 FTs was to be the rest.

 

[BGIF]

FINALLY, Bri PUTBACK.

Jackson answers

Shep drive, dishes to Rico for 2 AND ONE! 17-10

 

[BGIF]

BU 3 NG, Shep reb

Rico long 2

Brown outmuscling Turner.

Mabs 3 NG

Brown 3 second call

BU fast break for 2 Up 9

Young behind a foul line screen for 2

TURNER BLOCK on Cox

Young PF#1

Richards in the lane for 2.

Shep called for foul.

Richards playing bigger than 6-1

Jackson steal from Young, breaks for buzzer beater deuce.


Ow, 25-14

 

[BGIF]

End of 1, BU 25-14

End of 1, BU 25-14

Matchup ND BU

FG	5-24	12-18
FG %	20.8	66.7
3PT	1-3	1-3
3PT%	33.3	33.3
FT	3-3	0-0
FF%	100.0	0.0
Rebounds	14	11
ORebs	10	2
DRebs	4	9
Team Rebs	0	0
Assists	3	7
Steals	2	2
Blocks	1	3
Turnovers	3	3
Team TOs	0	0
Total TOs	3	3
Fouls	2	2

 

[dad4aa]

Hard to compete when you shoot 21% and your opponent shoots 67%

 

[BGIF]

Notre Dame

STARTERS	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
J. Shepard F	0-3	0-0	0-0	3	1	4	1	0	1	1	1	0
B. Turner F	1-4	0-0	0-0	3	2	5	2	0	0	0	0	2
M. Mabrey G	1-4	1-3	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
A. Ogunbowale G	2-9	0-0	1-1	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	5
J. Young G	1-4	0-0	2-2	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	1	4
BENCH	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
TEAM	        5-24	1-3	3-3	10	4	14	3	2	1	3	2	14
 	       20.8%	33.3%	100.0%

Baylor

STARTERS	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
L. Cox F	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	5	5	1	0	2	1	1	2
K. Brown C	1-2	0-0	0-0	1	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	2
J. Landrum G	2-5	1-3	0-0	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	5
D. Richards G	1-2	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	2
C. Jackson G	5-5	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	10
BENCH	        FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
N. Smith F	2-2	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
TEAM	       12-18	1-3	0-0	2	9	11	7	2	3	3	2	25
 	       64.7%	33.3%	0.0%